Bits to read and research:

Ping research reading list

https://djmag.com/reviews/va-ping-volume-one

https://www.mumdance.com

It Starts With A Ping: Mumdance Interviewed

https://www.beatportal.com/articles/1053512-different-circles-returns-with-ping-volume-one-a-new-chapter-from-mumdance-and-logos?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Post Genre

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/popular-music/article/abs/is-the-post-in-postidentity-the-post-in-postgenre/F643B340B1C4769C3096FD8FBE145615

https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1209400/FULLTEXT02.pdf

Discord

Post genre

Social media

The fragmentation of the public sphere

Post‐Internet Music: Negotiating Queer Identity in the Digital Era (Lucia Clara Affaticati, 2024)

https://www.waterandmusic.com/why-so-many-music-producers-are-starting-their-own-discord-communities

‘Of all possible community platforms out there, why Discord?’

‘The chat service’s real-time communication capabilities offer a much sought-after respite from the unpredictability of social-media algorithms and from an overreliance on one’s follower graph to be heard.’

Horizontal communication

On Internet Subcultures & PC Music (Part II): A Reappraisal (Edward Spencer / blog of University of Birmingham, 2022)

Digital music patronage and plurality (…) (paper from MOCReN Lisbon programme, 2025)

Theory/terminology around microgenres: e.g., Microgenre studies (Wikipedia entry)